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Yamuna Kalyani–A Journey Back in Time-Part I

October 26th, 2009 by Ravi Rajagopalan | 0

INTRODUCTION:
Raga Yamuna Kalyani, also called as Yamuna, is a supposedly lighter melody and a minor raga today, under the Kalyani raaganga/melakartha. A look at the musical history as available to us and also given the fact that we have major compositions from both Tyagaraja and Muthusvami Dikshitar, would show that this raga wasn’t a minor [...]